Mischance
[mɪs'tʃɑːns] or [,mɪs'tʃæns]
Definition
(n.) Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap.
(v. i.) To happen by mischance.
Inputed by Augustine
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Misfortune, mishap, ill-luck, misadventure, calamity.
Checker: Prudence
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Misfortune, misadventure, mishap,[See CHANCE_and_MISADVENTURE]
Typist: Rachel
Definition
n. ill-luck: mishap misfortune: calamity.—v.i. to chance wrongly come to ill-luck.—adj. Mischan′cy (Scot.) unlucky.
Typist: Tito
Examples
- When they met by mischance, he made sarcastic bows or remarks to the child, or glared at him with savage-looking eyes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She fancied that Raymond would already be free, and that her tender attentions would come to entirely obliterate even the memory of his mischance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I thought if I ever got out of that scrape alive I would know more about the habits of animals and everything else, and be prepared for all kinds of mischance when I undertook an enterprise. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His case, thus complicated by a new mischance, was become one of interest in the surgeon's eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Stealing along silently, their boots made no sound in the dead sand, and they arrived without mischance at the rocky wall of the harbor. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Should any mischance befall him: what was then left for her? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- To speak truth, I am not anxious about him; some slight mischance would be only his just due. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- One of his most intimate friends was a merchant, who, from a flourishing state, fell, through numerous mischances, into poverty. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Edited by Dwight